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Old 14-05-2015, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Eratosthenes View Post
I see.

And yet you make this statement concerning the Casimir effect and bosonic strings

Rather than being a mathematical trick, renormalization has a physical significance and is related to the Casimir effect where there has been a shift in the ground energy state of the bosonic string.

(incidentally, I don't accept String Theory as a science. It's a concept more akin to a Mathematical Philosophy. This of course can change, should experimental evidence emerge that supports the predictions that String Theory claims.)

Cheers

Argument by repetition.
I addressed this point in my last post.
Do you actually bother to read posts or do you simply want to be argumentative.